Mepo is D5 winner. Still some to sort out for 2-4 teams. Probably will be Mid-Prairie, West Burlington and Albia.With one week to go, we have a decent playoff picture. On my side of the state I think there are two districts that are pretty much set.
D7- VM / Clarinda / Clarke / I-35
D8- Kuemper / RS / DMC / SE Valley
Anything else for certain yet? I could have also screwed this up with my lack of sleep
This is pretty much inline with my thoughts. Though I could see them sending D3 champ over to D1 champ.
That's a closer drive than having Clarinda go north. Here is the map I was referencing. 1-10 refer to rankings. The rest were just as I did them. Green pins are champs = can't play each other. Blue is West Lyon who I think they protect. Again, just an opinion. What would you have?
Good catch! The map pinned a different location instead of the school district. I was being lazy and didn't move it. That blows up my auto-script for distance too. Will have to reevaluate. Thanks USF!
Yeah, Kuemper is either going to get VM or CLGLR in the pod. Pick your poison. Almost inevitable (in my view) to make a path for CLGLR, VM, WL, and Monty without a "Pod of Death" featuring 3 ranked teams. We'll see how it falls by Saturday before I redo the projections.
There is no criteria for forming pods other than district champs won’t play each other until the quarterfinals. I was looking more at getting the top teams in the IHSAA rankings to the dome as well as getting home games through quarterfinals for Central Lyon and Van Meter at least. I know they won’t do it that way though. Also, Monticello is their #4 team per your post with the rankings.
I may have missed it but what criteria keeps Van Meter from having a home game or Mediapolis only being able to travel to CL or Kuemper? The main round two criteria I see is no district champ vs district champ. The manual has very little beyond that from what I have seen.
I’m talking quarterfinals which comes into play when creating the pods that’ll come out Saturday.
I guess the way I read both sections, the only criteria used to actually build the pods is the district champs can’t play district champs in round 2. The rest is the criteria they will use for home and away when those pods and games have been assigned however they choose to arrange them. I have also heard that they plan on splitting the top four into their own pod. It’s nowhere in writing.
Correct which is what I have. I just took it a step further and have Central Lyon/Van Meter home games in the quarters. Putting Waukon in Van Meter’s pod is only way Van Meter gets a quarterfinal home game unless there’s upsets. I’m making assumptions which may or may not happen.
This would be very sh*tty. I know most don't care about what happens SW of 80/35, but the state did Clarinda no favors with the districts. Having them travel 4+ hours for a playoff game after being ranked all year would be the cherry on top.
@MepoDawg#This would be very sh*tty. I know most don't care about what happens SW of 80/35, but the state did Clarinda no favors with the districts. Having them travel 4+ hours for a playoff game after being ranked all year would be the cherry on top.
I know geographically it presents challenges, but I would be pretty pissed if that is how it ends up. Then again, not a bad matchup
